Forkbeard Fantasy – The Colour Of Nonsense
On the 25th November 2009 our drama group saw the play The Colour Of Nonsense, in the North Wall professional theatre in Summertown, Oxford. It was a production performed by an independent theatre company. The genre of the piece was slapstick comedy, and set in an office in a city. There were five main characters: Splash, Line, Scuro, Angstrom and Hermione. Although the once famous artistic trio (Splash, Line and Scuro) have two pets; a fly called Cedric and a parrot called dolly.
The set was very messy and contained many hidden meanings, on the stage left there were lots of pieces of paper and scraps, on them were drawings, this could signify that the trio were now failed and they had run out of original ideas Scuro was the main cartoonist and it seemed as if the other two had given up, Line was threatening to join another artist and this shows that he had realized that they were failing. The stage also had a shelf of paints, but they were to my surprise ordered, this could show that they hadn’t been used for a while because in my view an artist regularly using the paints would be rather messy (like Scuro is with his drawings). At the back of the stage was a trolley, it had a jar which contained some tulips, but in the play the tulips are called The Aphids.
